Sprint Log
Live status lives on GitHub — Milestones and the Project board. GitHub is the source of truth for day-to-day work; this doc is the re-baselined plan and the narrative log.
- Cadence: biweekly sprints, solo dev — 15–20 focused hours/week ⇒ ~30–40 hours per sprint.
- North star: a playable demo, targeting 2027-03-30 (the
Demo (early 2027)milestone), ~39 weeks from 2026-06-30 — see the public roadmap. - Runway: ~19 biweekly windows. Plan = Sprints 2–17 of working scope (two of them holiday-light) + Sprints 18–20 of demo hardening and reserved buffer.
- Sprint milestones are ordered buckets with target two-week windows — scope flexes, the order holds.
Demo scope (protected critical path)
Section titled “Demo scope (protected critical path)”Design a small ship → welcome first guests → keep them happy → turn a profit, with emergent drama. The protected chain is: finished build loop → guests/crew agents + needs → economy v1 → first content pass → short scenario on a cruise route → save/load → polish → demo hardening. Everything off this chain is sacrificable into the buffer (see cut order below).
Sprint map
Section titled “Sprint map”Mapped to the roadmap phases. Issue numbers are GitHub issues.
| Sprint | Window | Phase | Focus (key issues) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 ✅ | — | Foundations | Engine, orbit camera, grid + snap prototype |
| 2 ▶ current | 06-30 → 07-13 | Foundations & Build Loop | Finish placement loop (#62/#63/#42/#67), deck usable+viewable (#68/#70), undo foundation (#81), door greybox (#75), doc fixes (#108/#127/#141), comms (#94/#95) |
| 3 | 07-14 → 07-27 | Foundations & Build Loop | Door module (#74), deck/wall hotkeys (#69/#72), art conventions + palette (#51/#50), core hardening (#130/#132/#128), Devlog 01 (#49) |
| 4 | 07-28 → 08-10 | Foundations & Build Loop | Unity CI gate (#109), LFS migrate early (#111), wall height (#84/#85), edge delete/undo (#65/#66) |
| 5 | 08-11 → 08-24 | Foundations & Build Loop | EditMode tests (#110), paired coordinate model (#115 + #116), center-offset (#133) |
| 6 | 08-25 → 09-07 | Agents & Needs | Agents/needs spike (#54), cabin content (#76/#77/#88), perf baseline (#47), event hot-path (#113) |
| 7 | 09-08 → 09-21 | Agents & Needs | Agents impl I — nav/spawn (#147); Core debt (#135/#129/#134) |
| 8 | 09-22 → 10-05 | Agents & Needs | Agents impl II — needs/seek-satisfy (#148); perf (#114/#118) |
| 9 | 10-06 → 10-19 | Economy | Economy v1 (#104); hot-path/build debt (#117/#112) |
| 10 | 10-20 → 11-02 | Content & Art | Trim sheet (#48), kitbash (#44), import presets (#45), PodNet cleanup (#137) |
| 11 | 11-03 → 11-16 | Save/Load & Routes | Save/load spike + impl I (#57/#149); Steam Coming-Soon (#56) |
| 12 | 11-17 → 11-30 | Save/Load & Routes | Save/load impl II (#149) + cruise routes (#150) |
| 13 | 12-01 → 12-14 | Infra Hardening & Marketing | Build pipeline (#55); infra/docs debt (#119/#121/#123/#145/#146) |
| 14 | 12-15 → 12-28 | Infra Hardening & Marketing | Holiday-light: web/infra debt (#120/#122/#124/#142/#144/#139), Discord (#91/#92) |
| 15 | 12-29 → 01-11 | Infra Hardening & Marketing | Holiday-light: web polish (#125/#136/#143/#140), socials/teaser (#52/#89/#90/#93) |
| 16 | 01-12 → 01-25 | Integration & Scenario | Cruise routes (#150) + short scenario (#151); web strict gate (#126) |
| 17 | 01-26 → 02-08 | Integration & Scenario | Content-pass completion + full-loop balance (#152) |
| 18–20 | 02-09 → 03-22 (+buffer to 03-30) | Demo Hardening | Demo build, bug bash, save/load robustness, perf vs baseline, rehearsal + reserved buffer — under the Demo (early 2027) milestone |
Per-sprint plan philosophy: every sprint carries a feature theme PLUS a small, deliberately-chosen slice of audit debt — no single over-subscribed hardening crunch. Foundation debt (CI, LFS, coordinate model) lands before heavy feature scaling; perf fixes are spread across S6–S9 and measured against the #47 baseline.
Demo-critical tails — biggest schedule risk
Section titled “Demo-critical tails — biggest schedule risk”These carry the most uncertainty and the thinnest history, so they are the real schedule risk — not the visible audit backlog. Now ticketed; tighten scope from the #54/#57 spikes as those land:
- Agents implementation (~40–70h) — #147 (S7), #148 (S8); scope from spike #54.
- Save/load implementation (~25–45h) — #149 (S11–S12); scope from spike #57.
- Cruise routes #150 (S12), short scenario #151 (S16), content-pass completion #152 (S17).
Pre-committed cut order (protects 2027-03-30)
Section titled “Pre-committed cut order (protects 2027-03-30)”If time is lost, cut in this order — none of these are on the playable demo loop: Steam Coming-Soon (#56) → kitbash breadth (#44) → marketing SEO/polish (#124/#125/#143/#144) → import presets / PodNet (#45/#137) → web strict gate (#126) → last resort, trim the scenario to a single scripted cruise.
Post-demo backlog: 45° walls & floors (#59/#60), creator outreach (#58), Input Action maps (#131), placement-orchestration extraction (#138) — kept unmilestoned until pulled into a sprint.
Sprint 1 — Foundations ✅
Section titled “Sprint 1 — Foundations ✅”Goal: Engine project setup, Parkitect-style camera (orbit, pitch limits), grid and snap prototype, intro devlog.
Outcome: Camera ✅; grid foundations strong (deck toggle landed in Sprint 2); welcome devlog published and the website went live. No capture clip this sprint.
Retro learnings (carried forward):
- Slice tasks smaller and vertically, each with a clear “done” state.
- Timebox art polish; park nice-to-haves instead of scope-creeping.
- Convert vague items into concrete, estimated tickets before a sprint starts.
Sprint 2 — Foundations & Build Loop ▶ current (2026-06-30 → 07-13)
Section titled “Sprint 2 — Foundations & Build Loop ▶ current (2026-06-30 → 07-13)”Goal: close out the in-flight build loop, make multi-deck usable, and clear the cheapest spec/doc drift before more code scales on a wrong spec.
- Finish placement: place floor (#62), drag-size floor (#63), grid toggle (#42), dev build UI (#67)
- Multi-deck: select via UI (#68), visibility toggle (#70)
- Undo foundation for objects (#81) — the command/history pattern #66 reuses
- Door greybox (#75) — hard-unblocks the door module (#74) next sprint
- Doc fixes: stale Unity versions/editor path/scene (#108), grid-spec contract (#127), roadmap re-baseline one-liner (#141)
- First comms: Devlog 01 outline (#94) + capture pack (#95)
Live task list: Sprint 2 milestone.
Sprint 3+
Section titled “Sprint 3+”Planned scope is in the sprint map above and tracked as GitHub
milestones (Sprints 3–17 and Demo (early 2027)). Each sprint ends with a playable
build and a short devlog. The two holiday-light sprints (14/15) carry only
game-decoupled web/docs/infra debt so a thin holiday week never blocks the demo loop.